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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-2-16, Page 7IIOUSEIIOLD TRIALS Rev, Dr. Talmage Delivers a Discourse to Wives and Mothers., Fatigues and Annoyances of Horne Life Are Preparatory Steps to 3 High Reward --Lessons Drawn From the Story of Mary and Martha. Washington, Feb. Is,-, This discourse of Dr. Talmage seems to opeln Leal the doors of .home life and rouses apprecia- tion of work not ordinarily recognized; text, Luke x, 4q : '`Lord., dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to servo *none? Hid. her .therefore that she belp dm, 5 'Veinier Is a beautiful village home- steag. el be oft, an l•ouse ba is dead and his widow has charge of the premises. 1t is 1t ieow -Martha of Birthday. Yes, I will show you also the pet of the houses bold. It is Alary, the younger sister, with a book armlet her arra, and in her facts no sign of cam or anxiety about auy- thing, Coalmine has come. Cheese ap- peering at the outside of the dear retakes eaano exoitenrent insido the door, The Ignore sac beadk the di:iarrenged furniture, arrange thole Bair and In a [lash prenere to open the door. They go not keep Christ waiting outside until they have ,newapia ralgcthemselves or el ►her te . iy arr• tute-I their tresses, and then with. affeeteci serprise come out ansa pretend• Mg not to terve heard the two er three previous knockings silt', "Wee, is that Tea?" Now they were Ladies end always presentable, 4101a110, fierlifaps they had; not, on their best None of us always bave en our beat, l)the°reties very soou our best would not he worth havied on. They throw open the door and greet Christ. Theis sir, : "tNail morning, Master. Como to and lie seated." t'hrist salla c a ce ni:any aF frieracls with him, find the influe of sa teeny rite visitors, you do nee wonder. threw thea canonry home into mains per:ru•L:a'.aon. I. eimpose the walk filial the city hal horn :► linen appetiser. The kitehen tlel•:trturent that day was a very important dalartment, and I think as Sean as Marthabad greeted her guest: qhs wont to that room. Mary had no anxiety about the dinner. She had full ceniidene,e cleat her sister Martha aoulai act up the laet diuner in Bethany, :and oho practically said: ".Now, let u, have a division of l:ahor Martha, you meek, and I'll aft down and learn." 'foo Sisters Diner. The same difference you noweonlotiuies sea between sisters. There is elevate, In- dustrious, painstaking, a good nrltnager, ever inventive of some new pastry, dis- cetering something in household affairs. Hero is Mary, fond of conversation, literary, so full of quo..tions of ethics she tans no time to discuss questions of house - bold welfare. It Is noon. Mary is In the parlor. Martha is in the kitchen. It would have been better far them to have divided the toll, and then they could have elividod tho opportunity of listening to Christ, But Mary monopolizes Christ while Martha swelters before the fire It was very important that they have a good dinner that day, for Christ was hungry, and be did not often bave luxu- rious entertainment, Alas, ine! if all the respenteibility of that entertainment had rested with Mary, what a repast they would havo had 1 But something wont wrong in tho kitchen. Either the fire would not burn, or the bread would not bake. or something was turned b]ack that ought to .have been only turned brown, or Martha scalded herself and, forgetting all rho proprieties of the occas- ion, with bosweated brow sbo rushed out of the kitchen into the parlor, porbapr with tongs in one band and pitcher in the other, and she cried out: "Lord, doat tbon not caro that my sister has left mo to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me." Christ scolded not a word. If at were scolding, I would rather have him scold ine thin anybody else bless me. '1 hero was nothing aoerb in Ott Saviour s reply. Ile knew Martha had been working herself almost to death to get hien souaething to eat, and be appre- ciated ler kindness, and he practically said: "My dear woman, do not worry. Let the dinner go. Sit down here an this couch beside your younger sister Ilary. Let us tall: about something also. Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about .many things, but one thing is needful." As Martha throws open the aoor I look in to -day, and I see a great ninny household anxieties, perplexities, fatigues and trials, and about thein I am going to speak if the Lorci of Mary and ?Martha and Lazarus will help me by bis grace. Annoyances of Home Life. As I look into tbat door, in the first place, I see the trial of nonappreciation. That was what made Martha so vexed at Mary. Mary, the younger sister, had no proper estimate of the elder sister's fatigue, just as now men having annoy- ances of store and factory and shop or at the stock exchange come home at night and hear of some household annoy- ance, and they say: "Oh, that's nothing! You ought to bo in a factory a day and have 10 or 15 or 20 or 100 subordinates. Then you would know something about anncyanee, and trouble." 0 man, let me tell you that a wife and a mother alas to conduct at the same time a university, a clothing establishment, a restaurant, a laundry, a library, and has to be health officer, police and president of the` whole realm! She has to do a thousand things, and to do them well, in order to make things go smoothly, and that is what puts the awful tax on a woman's nerves and a woman's brain. I know there are exceptions to the rule. Sometimes you Will find a woman who can sit in the. armchair of the 'ibraree all day without any anxiety, or tarry on the belated pil- low, and all the cares of the household are thrown upon servants who have large. wages and great experience, but that is the exception. I speak of the great masses of housekeepers, to whom life is a etrug- gle, and wbo at 30 years of age look as though they were 4u. The fallen at Chalons and Austerlii,z and Gettysburg and Waterloo are a small number in com- parison with those ono have gone down under the Armageddon of the kitchen. Go out to the country and look over the epitaphs on the tombstones.: They are all beautiful and poetic, but if tha tomb- stones could toll the ,auth thousands of them would say, "I. ere ties a woman who wan killed by too much mending end Rowing and bating and scouring and Scrubbing," and th:; weapon' with which silo was killed was a broom or a sewing machine or a ladle. The housewife rises in the morning half rested. At an irre- vocable hour she must bavo tbe morning repast ready. Ne hat if the fire will not burn? What if the C1Qck stop? What if the niarireting has not been sant in? No matter that; it roust he ready at the irrevocable hour. Then tbe children must be got ready for school. But what it the garments be torn? What if they do not 9 know tile! le sons Whatif r the bas a or sash is lost? They mast he ready. then. n v h C you ha e the duty ot the day or perhaps several days to plan out, But what if tbe buteber sends masa! unmaaticable? What it the grocer furnishes you arcioles of food adulterated? What it the piece of silver be cost, or tt theories chalice be broken, or the root leak, or the plumbing frail, or any ane of a thousand things occur? No matter. leverythins must be ready, Tho spring is coining, and there must be revolution in tho family ward- robe, or the immune 'b at baud, and you Must abut out the northern blast. .But hew the t t e moth has1' r. dad you a@ n to the p chest? How if the garments of the haat year do not 115 the children now? What if all the fashzans bavo cben„ ed? Trials ,it,praerltttod. The house Inuit be an extemporized apotheeary'a shop or dispeustu'y. `there mut be relief for ail reales of ailments— a-':la,rthint, to iooran tee croup, iozucthing re cm'.1 the burn, . l:A:hing to pouitice the inflammation, se amtiaing to silapce Die jumping tootle, afnactiaing to soothe the t'ar:mile 0 men of Jtaiuesi, if you bed as army car:.':; as that, you would, be alit centlulate fur an insane asylurui if Martha make under spelt elrcumstancee un impatient rush on the library or the drawing roma, he M „tient, be lenient, 0. , my afstcr, though ray words may not erouso in many soar any app,-eclation of your toil, let me assure you f/azo the kindiinees with which deeps Christ met Martha that beapprerl.ttes all your trials from garret to cellar, and the clod of Deborah and 11lrlaru and Abigail is the (nod of the housekeepers! ehrlat never married, that he might be the especial friend and confidant of a whole world of troubled womanhood. I blundered. Christ was married. The Bible says the church is "the 13rlde, the Lamb's wife," and that makes me know that a watnan has it right to go to Cllriat with all her annoyanoos anti perplexities and fatigues, for uy his oath of conjugal fidelity ho htith sworn to sympathize. George Herb- ert put the thought in three or four verses, quaint and peculiar, but strong, and in ono verse saying The servant by this clause makes drudg- ery divine; Who swoops a rooan as far thy latus )Hakes tbis and the action fine. A young wotuan of brilliant education and prosperous surroundings was palled downstairs to help in the absence of the servant, and there wait a ring at the bell and she went to the door, and an admir- er enFered. He said, "I thought I board music in the house. Was it on the piano or the harp?" Sue said: "yaltber; It was a frying pan accompaniment to a gridiron! In other words, 1 was tailed downstairs to help. 1 suppose some time I shall have to learn, and 1 bave begun now," When will the world learn that every kind of work thus is right is hon- erabie? ileum Economies. As Martha opens the door I look in and I also see the trial of severe Goon- omy. Nine hundred and ninety-nine households nut of a thousand are sub jected to it either under the greater or less stress of ciremnstances. It is espooi. ally so when a man smokes expensi.e cigars and dines at costly restaurants. He will be very apt to enjoin severe economy alt home. That is we,at kills thousands of women—the attempt to make $7 of 145. It is amazing how some men dole out money to the household. If you have not got the money, say so. If you have, be cheerful in the expenditure, Your wife will be reasonable. "How long does the honeymoon last?" said a young woman about mentor the married state to ber mother, the another answered, "The honeymoon lasts until you ask your husband for money." "Sow much do you want?" "A dollar." "A dollar! Can't you get along with 50 cents? You are always wanting $L" This 30 years' war against high prides, this everlasting attempt to bring the out- go within the Income, bas exhausted multitudes of housekeepers. Let me say to buck it Is a part of the divine discip- line. If it were best for you, all you would have to do would be just to alien the 'front windows, and the ravens would fly in with food, and after you bed baked 50 times from the barrel in the pantry, like the barrel of Zarepbatb, the barrel would be full and the child- ren's shoes would last as long as the shoes of the Israelites in the wiloernese- 40 years. !Period of Preparation. Oa any friends, all these trials and fatigues of home lite are to prerare you for heaven, for they will make that the brigbter in the contraeti A dying soldier was asked by a friend. "Have you any message to send to your father?" "Yes," said he. "Tell hien I have gone home." "Well," said the friend, "havo von any message to send to your wife?" " Yes. Tell her I have gone home." " You have other friends. Would you like to send a mesage to them?" "Yes. Give them the same message; they will all understand it. Tell them I have gone borne." And that heavenly home will compensate, will fully atone, for all the hardships and the trials and the annoy- ances and the vexations of the earthly borne. In that land they never hunger, and consequently there will be no nuis- ance of catering for appetite. In that land of the white robes tbey have no mending to do, and the air of that obill/ country makes them all well. No runt to pay there; every man owns bit own house, and a mansion at that, It will not be to great a (Mange to step Into the chariot of the skies if on earth you rode. It will not be so great a change of on earth you had all luxuries and satisfac- tions. 15 will not• be so great a change for yon to alb down on the banks of the river of life if on earth you had a. Donn- try seat. But, ob, the joy for the weary feet when they step lute the celestial equipage, and, oh, the joys of those Se whom home was a martyrdom on earth when they go into that home where they will never have to do anything they don't want to do! Wire; a change front the time she put down the rolling pin to the time she took up the scepter! If Chatsworth Park and the Vanderbilt mansion were lifted into the celestial city, they would be looked at es uninhabitable rookeries, and Lazarus himself would be ashamed to be seen going in or out of thane, so greet are the palaces awaiting all God'a dear obildron, and so much grander the heavenly architecture than the earthly, It is often not only the toil of the house. keeping, but it is the sickness and the Wrow that ge Weaat, Is is a sinzplc fact that one-half of the women of the land are invalids. The mountain lass who has never bad an ache or a pain may cola- elder household work of no very great weariness, and at ebo eventide may skip out to the fields and drive the cattle home, and until 10 o'eloak at night znay f111 the cabin with laughing racket, but, a oh, tod the shard work t w 1` f e household 1. th has o With A wn b a sbatt tad con9titucion^afGgr sit weeks' whooping cough has raged in the bousebold, making the nights as sleap- less as the days, then it is not so easy. And the chis work of the house has often to be undertaken when the nerves are shattered with some bereavement time has put desolation in every room 05 the house and sent the crib into the gar, rat because les ocoupant has boon hushed into le slumber that needs no mother's lullaby. Oh, it Wats it great deal wittier ter her to brood the whole Aeon tban to brood art of them now hatLhero t bavegone! You natty ytal1 her at ber departed children are in tbe bosom of a loving God, but, motherlikq, she will brood both flocks, putting one wing of Dare over the flock in the house, putting the other wing of care over the flock in the ,:rave. Noshing but the old lasbioued religion of Jesus Christ can take a woman happily through tonne trials. All these modern retielons amount to nothing. They do not help. They do not comfort wben there i; :a dead bale, in the house, Away vain tIstu and give us the old faebionee,i religion of Jesus Christ Vett has comforted en many in tbo days at sorrow and Lrgtlbla! t,ouirole Ii»na•inr54. Raznance anti novelty may for a little while Deem to be a suhstitutu. The mar- riage day bus only gone Ly, just gone by, and all hcusebold cares aro atoned for by the jos of !loins together and Ly the feat that when it law at night it is 005 neceesary to dlreuts whether it is time to go. All the mishaps of tine newly mar- ried, couple in tho way of household affairs are not matters of anxiety or re- prehension, but worriment. The loaf of bread turned into n geological specimen, the slushy custards and jaundicedand measly biscuits! Oh, it Is a very bright sunlight that fails upon the cutlery and Mantel ornaments of a new home! Romana° and novelty will do tor a little while, but after awhile, the romance Is all gond, ane there ss a loaf to be made, a loaf that cannot be sweetened by any earthly oondlments, and cannot be baked in any ordinary oven. It is the loaf of daanestio happiness. All he ingredients from heaven. Fruit from the tree of life and sweetened with the new wine at the kingdom and baited in the oven of home trial. God only can make that loaf. You can cut it, but it takes God to make it. Solomon wrote out of bis own miser- able experience --be had a wretched borne; no man can be happy with two wives, much less with 700, and out of hie wretched experience ho wrote— "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred there- with." Oh, tbe responsibilities of house- keepers! Sings by their indigestion bale lost empires, and generals through in- digestion have lost battles. One of the great statisticians says that out of 1,000 unmarried mien 30 were criminals, and out of 1,000 *Harried men only 18 were criminals, showing the power of home. And, oh, the responsibility resting upon bousekeepers! By the food they provide, by the couch they spread, by the books they introduce, by the influence they bring around the home, they are helping to decide the physical, the intellectual, the moral, the eternal, welfare of the human rase. Oh, the responsibility! True Ra»pinees. That woman sits in the house of God to -day perhaps entirely unappreciated. She is the banker of ber home, the president, the cashier, the teller, the dis- count clerk, and seer and anon there is a panic. God knows the anxieties and the cares, and ho knows that this is not a useless sermon, bus tbat ;here are multi- tudes of hearts waiting for the distilla- tion of the divine mercy and solace is their hour of trial and their home duties and their own fatigues. Tho world hears nothing about them. They never speak about them. Yon could not with the agonies of an inquisition bring the truth out of them. They keep it still. They day nothing. They endure and will until God and the ju.gment right their wrongs. "Oh." says some sister, "are you not trying to show that all a woman's life at home is one of self eacri- iioe?" Yee, my sister, and that Is the only kind of life worth diving. Tbac has been the life of Florence Nightingale; that was the life ot Edward Payson; that was the life of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is the life of every man or woman that is bappy—a life of self sacrifice. Those people living for themselves -are they bappy? Find ane cue. I will give you all the nations of tea earth to find me one. Nothappy—no, not happy. It is the self sacrificing people that are bappy, for God pays so largely, so glori- ously, so magnificently, in the deep and eternal satisfactions of the soul. Self- sacrifice! We all admire It in others. How little we exercise of 15! How much would we endure—how much would we risk --for others? A very rough schoolmaster had a poor lad that haci offended the laws of the school, and be ordered bim to come up. "Now." he said. "you take off your coat instantly and receive this whip!" The boy declined, and more vehemently the ;teaober said, "I tell you, now, take off your coat—take it off instantly!" The bay again declined. It was not because he was afraid of the lash—be was used to that in his nruol home—but it was for shame. He bad no undergarments, and when at last he removed bis coat there went up a sob of emotion all through the school as they saw why ho did not wish to remove his coat and as they saw the shoulder ' blades almost cutting through the akin. As the schoolmaster lifted his whip to stripe, a' roseate,healthy boy leaped up and sale: "Stop, school- master; whip me! He is only a poor cbaip; lie can't stand it; whip me!" "Oh, said the teaoher "ices going to be a very severe scourging! But if yon want to take tbe position of a substitute you can do it," The boy sale: "1 done care. Whip me. I'lltake it. He's only a poor ebap. Dou't you see the bones .1 most conte through the flesh? Whip ane." Ani when the blown came down on the buy's silonlders this hunitby, robust lad made no optery. lie endured it ail uta complainingly. We all say "Bravo!" for the lad, Bravo! Thatis, the spirit of Christi Splendid! low much scourging, bow much chastisement, how much anguish, will you and I take for orhere? Ob, that we might have so:netlong of the solrit of Jesus Christ, for in all our occupations and trades and businesses, and all our life, home life, foreign life, we are to remember that the sacrifice for others will soon be over. 4 Victian of the Government. "Yes, suit," said the old oolorcd citizen, "our boy wuz a sojer, en (ley tuck en kilt hint out dar whir de Cubians is, en sky brung him home all wropped up in a hip; Nssuitc-d States Dag, en. I non:lied the rheumatism gwine ter his funeral, en de ole mimeo got de rattlin er de brain, en we hadv n a doctor, a Son de 'r t bill ter i4 a.,iuu ton, but net one cent ex pension is eatber de one or de yuther dot funs de guvernaintl En de rheumatism is still a r:tckin er me, en do ole oozy,:en's brain is a-rattlin lak a lumber wagon ort a kir'r t td b ;;e, en de po' soul ain't ackehully able ter rise up en make a livin ter tree!" Wealth and n Couapetence. "Why are you so much more anxious to get tire trade of the Middleman family than you are of the Crsesus family?"' the curious Iran asked one of the neighbor - hoe dr idl • r t,. 4a len. "(l 'Ce "Old CI SnS Irina b buy ry twice rz mueii,' "Quite right," answered the tradesman, "but he's so rich that he pays when he gets ready, which army be only 01100 a ;Keay, and tele can't afford to dun him, while Middleman realizes trey needs, promptiy and dos. -.21't have is lit if I sand hint a it;ll."--Cliit•ago Post. Thole 1revie.aer cur the lairds.- A visitor in the arks of eitocl,bolm- cannot mil tet sea ee; here and there in ant of she way 141„ams, s`,eaves of oats i he eonst:ant pravlsi Irl far hungry birds as an enduring reminder of the love for the leathered tribe displayed by the Crown Prinoess of Denmark, born Louise of Sweden and Norway, and daughter of Charles XV., brother of the present King. Before Ler marriage and cense- fluent departure for Copenhagen the Crown Princess devoted a considerable fund to the maintenance in the parks of a little store of unthrasbed grain, which might be the resort of the birda which made no \einem migration to the south. Such is the Princess' nffootion for song bircie that le was said during her resi- deutei in Sconkholm that all the birds knew Ler, and that many of them would eat out of her hand 'Ibo friends of her childhood, sho said, she would never forget.—Loudon Queen. Aristocratic Workhouse. A workhouse for the blue blooded has just been founded at Checkoff, capital of the Russian Government of the same name south of Moscow. Backed by pedi- grees and with no means of support, men and women of all ages aro admitted to this unique asylum, which has the Imperial protection, and Is subsidized by tho benevolent among the Russian aris- tocracy. The able-bodied inmates lead no idle lives, for work is apportioned to oaoh according to his mental or physical ability, and it is marvelous to see what the good for nothing spendthrift and tho decayed nobleman who from infancy leave been petted and served can achieve when they are forced to work. Those re- duced ladies and gentlemen are lodged, fed and clothed and receive 15 kopecks (10 cents) a day for pocket money, with the promise of more as a reward for ex- emplary conduct and exceptional indus- try --London Truth. LA GRIPPE'S VICTIMS. The After Effects More Danger- ous Than the Disease. A We.11 Known nttebeo 18armer Suffered Untold iMIisery for Three Tears Before Re Found Relief. Tho epidem c of la grippe which has swept over Canada like a scourge this winter has left thousands of weak and de - sparing sufferers in all parts of the land. Grippe is a treacherous disease. You think you are cured, yet the slightest colon brings on a relapse. Its victims are left in a weakened conditit'n and fall an easy prey to its manifold complications. The blood is left impure and impoverished ; the nerves shattered, and heart trouble and nervous prostration are too often the re- sult. The following statement made by Mr. Daniel Clossey, a well known farmer liv- ing near West Brome, Que., indicates the ravages made by the after effects of this scourge. Mr. Clossey says:—"Some five years ago I had an attack of la grippe. The earlier symptoms passed away, yet I continued to fail in health and suffered in- tense pain in my head. I was subject to attacks of dizziness, and unless I would grasp something would fall 1 gradually grew so weak as to be unable to do any work. My legs and feet Were as cold as ice even in the summer months. If I at- tempted the least exertion sly heart would beat violently. For three years I was in this helpless condition, and although dur- ing that time I was attended by three dif- f rent doctors, their treatment produced not the slightest benefit. At this time I read the statement of one whir had suffered from similar trouble, who was cured by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I decided to try them. The result was sire; ply marvellous. A dozen boxes ti id what three years of expensive mediaai treat- Ment failed to accomplish—restored ane to full healtli and vigor, and I am again able to do my work about the farm, I h•, nestly believe Dr. Williams' Pink Pills saved my life and I am glad to make this statement for the benefit it may bring to others." After au attack of la grippe Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills is the only medicine that can pronipriy restore you to health: They drive every trace of the poisonous germs from the 'system, build 'up, and enrich the blood and strengthen the nerves. 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Our business will IIATiONAL FARMERS fail if we deceive you—we cannot afford to be dishonest FARMERS COMPANY with you even if we were so inclined. You will be high- COIt1PANY NAT ONAL ly gratified with the quality of NATIONAL Binder NATIONAL FARMERS Twine and surprised at the excellence and elegance of FARMERS COMPANY the premiums we give. Every promise we make will COMPANY Nae IaluAL be performed to the letter. ;7, -9 - Address all letters and NATIONAL FARMERS make all remittances payable to FARMERS NATIONAL NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY, NATt) NAI FARMERS TORONTO. FARMERS COMPANY COMPANY £ En uirers are referred to Bradstreet,', and R. G. NATIONAL Dun s Co's Mercantile A;eneioe and to the Editor of this NATIONAL FARMERS paper as to our responsibility. 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If any saloon keeper would dare to give a horse liquor and make the animal reel and unfit him for labor, such a saloon keeper would suffer at the hands of every person to whom such conduct became known; but what does the public do when he perpetrates such a mischief to a man, also knownas a ci izen? flow's This We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have knovfu F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. Wssr &.TRUAX, Who'rsaleDruggists,T„]edo,0, WALDINS, IiINNAN &MARVIN, Wholesale Drug. gists• Toledo, O. H1il]'s Catarrh qui is taken internally, act- ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur- faces or the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by allDrugpists. Testim nials free. Cheerio;; Her Up. He—What Makes you so sensitive? 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